Serena Williams Says There’s One ‘Big’ Thing Keeping Her From Running A Marathon

Every so often Serena Williams holds a “Q & A” on Twitter for her fans. The tennis star’s quite popular on social media, with 4.4 million followers, many of whom hang on every update and photo she sends out.

Today, someone asked Serena about running the NYC Marathon. Her answer was simple, straight to the point, and let’s be honest, spot-on.

The thing I like most about Serena is that she embraces her body type. She’s not skinny, she doesn’t weigh 120-lbs like most of her peers on the tennis tour. No, she’s curvy, she’s healthy and yeah, she has some junk in the trunk. And you know what, judging by her photos on Instagram, she absolutely LOVES it.

If she trained to be good at it, but I take it the question is just why she doesn’t run a marathon. Personally people don’t seem to understand because someone is athletic doesn’t mean they can do every athletic thing.

Its the old dennis miller joke about a lion being king on the savannah but a penguins bitch in the antarctic. Being good at Tennis has nothing to do with being good at cross country. Hell in a runner like Usain Bolt probably wouldn’t be a good marathoner.

Why are you speaking about being a fit, beautiful black woman with a large caboose and large breasts as if most people wouldn’t be thrilled to look that way? That’s, like, THE body to have, nowadays. Though I have always been kind of surprised that she manages to stay so curvy while being a champion in tennis, which I think of as the kind of endurance sport that would make such a figure pretty hard to maintain.